good motherboard for my build?

[ixiboneheadixi]

im just looking around and would this be a good motherboard for a good gaming rig which will also be used for video editing and stuff. http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188092 also i have seen a couple of boards with 2 cpu sockets, so if you put 2 cpus into one of those would it double the performance?

 

[salvage-this]

yes it is good but overkill IMO. Are you going to run 4 way SLI!?

Look into some of the Gigabyte UD3/4 models. Great for the price.

 

[ixiboneheadixi]

i like overkill and 4 way sli sounds pretty awesome to me

 

[jonnyp11]

although you will get a ton of probs with gaming as drivers for multiu gpus on both brands always have a ton of bugs, and some games will just hate you and basically suck performance wise.

 

[StrangleHold]

although you will get a ton of probs with gaming as drivers for multiu gpus on both brands always have a ton of bugs, and some games will just hate you and basically suck performance wise.

Way Way Way over exaggeration. True there are some bug, but not anywhere near what people claim. I do think 3 and 4 way SLI and C/F is overkill

 

[jonnyp11]

well everytime someone talks about them everyone posts the problems like they kill the idea almost, and obviously i haven't tried it

 

[Okedokey]

Ive never had an issue with crossfire or sli. Anything more than 2 cards is only useful at uber resolutions or specific applications.

 

[ixiboneheadixi]

well i plan on running 3 monitors, most likely 30 inch 2560x1440, would i need mroe then 2 cards

 

[wolfeking]

at that resolution, just 2 way SLI 3GB GTX580s would be plenty. High resolutions needs more memory, not necessarily more cards. 3 1GB GTX560ti s would not preform any beter than a 1GB GTX570, as both will run out of memory.

 

[ixiboneheadixi]

at that resolution, just 2 way SLI 3GB GTX580s would be plenty. High resolutions needs more memory, not necessarily more cards. 3 1GB GTX560ti s would not preform any beter than a 1GB GTX570, as both will run out of memory.

but what if say i wanted to play a game and used all 3 monitors for that game, wuold that make all 3 in to one big resolution?

 

[wolfeking]

thats how the GPU and OS would read it. I think its called eyefinity or something like that.

 

[ixiboneheadixi]

thats how the GPU and OS would read it. I think its called eyefinity or something like that.

yeah its eyefinity for the amd cards and something else for the nvidia ones, but would doing that need more memory and or cards?

 

[wolfeking]

more memory definitely. 2 GTX580s or a single GTX590 could handle it.

 

[ixiboneheadixi]

ok, good to know, and just a random question, is there really a purpose to have a motherboard with two cpu sockets, or is that just extreme overkill?

 

[wolfeking]

that is mainly for servers and workstations these days. It would be massive overkill unless you have a program (not games, but business programs) that use many more than 12 threads (current max on HT 990x). 2x 990x would be 24 threads, and most programs are still not using 6!

 

[ixiboneheadixi]

so unless your running a server or something from your computer then its pretty much extremely pointless at this point in time?

 

[salvage-this]

Yes. One good processor will be enough.